Legendary Hollywood Producer

After a few days of leisure after moving into the new residence, Roman has to get busy again.

2004 has passed and 2005 has begun.

The current film project of Manhai Entertainment has been on the right track: the filming of "The Devil Wearing Prada" has been completed, director David Frankel and the post-production team are busy editing the film; "The Hangover" The sequel shooting plan has also been put on the agenda.

Created by the original team, and once again assembled together to shoot the sequel of the film, how you look at it is a good point of publicity.

In order to achieve this step, the salary increase of the actors and the production team is inevitable, so the total budget of this film has also been increased to 45 million US dollars, which is 20 million US dollars higher than the filming cost of the previous one. Most of the costs are caused by salary increases.

In another week, the crew will gather for filming. The release schedule for this time is initially set for April. If there are no surprises, there will be plenty of time.

The offline release of the movie "The Hangover" has also been done very well. More than 600,000 DVDs were sold on the first day. Many viewers bought the luxury and supreme DVDs. With more than 9 million U.S. dollars in revenue, Manhai Entertainment can get more than 4 million U.S. dollars in profit after excluding taxes and channel fees paid to Hollywood Video.

This is a lot, and Roman didn't expect that the movie "The Hangover", which had rolled in the film market, would still have a high potential to break out in the offline market.

Those who listened to the Hollywood video said that this first-day performance is already the most popular one. It is expected that the number of DVDs that can be sold will increase in the future. This momentum will usually be maintained for about one and a half months. It takes time to accumulate sales.

For this reason, Schulman also hurriedly contacted manufacturers on the mainland to ship more than 5 million DVDs to ensure that the supply of goods could not be cut off.

The first three episodes of the TV series "The Punisher" have also been made. Kevin Hoween from CAA called him, but Roman was delayed because of the move, and he didn’t go to watch it. Now it’s possible to start editing. , Roman is not so sure, so let's wait for the time to be over there. The filming of the TV series hasn't been able to make Roman pay so much attention to. It is difficult to increase the profits. After all, he does not have a platform to broadcast. After all, he has to cooperate with other TV stations.

Maybe when Roman's streaming media platform is launched in the future, it will pay attention to the production of TV series. But that's something for the future. There is a lot of money to invest in it. There is basically no possibility of profit in the early stage. It is a long-term loss of money to buy the market and make a big plate. Roman is not ready to continuously invest in it. , You have to wait until Manhai Entertainment has a few more stable financing channels to burn money steadily.

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In Burbank, Los Angeles, the Hollywood video chain rental store, the employees started today's work in an orderly manner.

Standing behind the counter, carefully handling the rental or sale of DVDs for each customer is the daily life of Eggers.

Today is no exception. Eggers came to the store early in the morning to help arrange the movie discs in different categories, and this service point also started a day's business.

After the door opened, someone walked in immediately.

"A DVD of the "Hangover" deluxe edition is $30. Thank you for your patronage." Eggers received the money and went through the formalities, and said with a smile: "Take it easy."

The customer picked up the disc and left the store.

A customer followed and put the selected discs on the counter.

Eggers hurriedly helped with the formalities.

""The Hangover" is rented for a week, the price is 5 dollars, and three DVDs of "The Hangover" are purchased for 36 dollars, for a total of 41 dollars."

It seems that this customer wanted to bring it for other people. After buying three DVDs, he also chose to rent one. It is estimated that he has to watch it. The purchase may be a gift.

"Thank you for your patronage." Another customer left the store.

Two more female customers came up later, all renting DVDs such as romance films, and Eggers hurriedly remembered them on the computer.

What is sold and the price must be recorded on the computer, and the headquarters will use it for statistics.

Several more customers came over, and Eggers repeated his previous work.

Continuous and repetitive work has already made Eggers practice perfect. He is now recording data on the computer very fast and not easy to make mistakes.

After helping a young man to go through the lease formalities, the shop quieted down. After the morning peak period, according to the law, we have to wait until it is close to 5 o'clock, after everyone is off work, we will re-welcome a large number of customers.

It was no different from the past. At 5 or 6 in the afternoon, the store ushered in the peak again, and Eggers began to repeat the corresponding leasing procedures such as recording data, collecting money, and finding change.

When it was 8:30 in the evening, Eggers watched that there was no one in the store, so he came out of the counter and began to tidy up the shelves and clean the store. After doing this, he can leave work.

While cleaning up the trash, the store elder John came into the store and asked, "How is business today?"

"It's pretty good. Recently, a few new movies have been released on DVD, and many people come to buy them."

"Yeah." Old John nodded, and also helped to organize the shelves and fill the vacant places with the DVD.

"Has today's data been uploaded?"

After the advent of the Internet era, even video rental work has become networked management. Not to mention, it is much easier than the previous record in the form of ledger, anyway, old John is quite satisfied with the current situation.

"Passed."

Hollywood Video will update the rental list every day after completing the statistics, so that each store can recommend DVDs reasonably.

"Is "The Hangover" the best selling today?"

"Well. It is the number one on the list. It has only been more than a week, and I think there is still a lot of market potential."

"Tomorrow I am going to get some "The Hangover", otherwise it will be out of stock."

There are 1,000 DVDs of "The Hangover" in Old John's shop. Now there are only 400 DVDs left. If you don't restock them, they will be sold out.

"I heard that the production cost of this film is only more than 2,000 US dollars. That company can make a lot of money. It has a lot of box office revenue. The DVD market is still so hot." Although Eggers has seen this happen many times. , But still very envious.

"Isn't it?" Old John reposted the "Hangover" movie poster in a conspicuous position so that people could buy it. Then he said: "Tomorrow, remember to go to work on time."

"I know."

It was nine o'clock, and it was time for get off work, and Eggers picked up his backpack and left here.

The gap between people is really big, the boy said with emotion in his heart.